Category Manager – Male Grooming & Beauty

Philips International; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global health technology company in the UK is seeking a Category Manager for Male Grooming & Beauty. The role involves creating trade stories, evaluating trends, and managing category initiatives. Ideal candidates should have strong communication skills, analytical abilities, and at least three years of category management experience. Join a company committed to improving health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and influencing skills, both internal and external.
• Proven analytical skills—fluent with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools.
• Category management experience of at least three years.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling, insight-led selling trade stories.
• Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with retailers.

Skills

Strong communication and influencing skills

Proven analytical skills

Project management across multiple functions

Ability to turn data into meaningful insights

Category management experience

Tools

GFK

Nielsen

Job description

Category Manager Male Grooming & Beauty page is loaded## Category Manager Male Grooming & Beautylocations: Farnboroughtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 568747### Job TitleCategory Manager Male Grooming & Beauty### Job Description**Category Manager – Male Grooming & Beauty UK**Shape the Future of Male Grooming & Beauty with a Global Leader!At Philips, we’re redefining personal care and empowering people everywhere to look and feel their best. Join us as a Category Manager, responsible for Male Grooming & Beauty taking control of a high-impact category. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a fast-growing category by ensuring the triple win is delivered for your category.**You are responsible for:*** Creating compelling, insight-led selling trade stories using data from multiple sources to develop category initiatives that deliver category growth and secure retailer buy-in.* Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends to develop actionable insights and recommendations across your categories to your retailers in combination with the Insight & Analytics teams.* Range reviews ownership from creating the brief, managing the process, reporting on outcome, and follow up to ensure objectives met and recommendations implemented.* Building strong, collaborative relationships with retailers. Influencing partners via impartial category expertise to influence change.* Partner closely with sales, marketing and other internal teams to ensure seamless execution of category plans.**To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:*** Strong communication and influencing skills, both internal and external.* Ability to manage projects across multiple functions both internally and externally.* Proven analytical skills—fluent with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools.* Ability to turn online and offline data into meaningful insights that drive action.* Concise and compelling storytelling.* Category management experience of at least three years.**How we work together** We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. **About Philips** We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. • Learn more about . • Discover . • Learn more about . If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care .#LI-EU#LI-Office#PersonalHealthAt Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. 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